The Portugália Airlines cabin crew’s July strike has been cancelled after a workers meeting was held and an understanding reached, according to information from the National Staff Union of Flight of Civil Aviation (SNPVAC).
The strike had been called by SNPVAC in protest of discrimination against working hours, with the union accusing the TAP group of not granting the crew of Portugália "the same rights" offered to other workers of the TAP group.
Portugal has authorised the medicinal use of cannabis but the cultivation of any plant that can be used for recreational drug use remains illegal, as has been discovered by a couple in Foz do Besteiro, Marmelete, in the fertile municipality of Monchique.
A neighbour complained at the 1.5 metre high crop of cannabis plants being grown on land near an isolated property and the GNR swooped, arresting the couple who had nurtured 386 plants to maturity.
Close to 60 Hell’s Angels have been arrested in a nationwide operation that saw police act on 80 search warrants in an operation targeting the international group. Five of the arrests were of foreigners - three Germans, one English and a Finn.
This mega-operation by the Central Department of Criminal Investigation, coordinated by the National Counterterrorism Unit of the Judicial Police, involved more than 400 inspectors and included arrests for criminal association, robbery and attempted murder.
Two Romanian men who robbed pensioners in three houses, firing at the owner in one case, have been arrested by the Portimão Judicial Police.
The robberies occurred between July and October 2017 in the Portimão and Lagoa council areas.
Albufeira Council has launched a campaign to warn people that if the lie on the beach under the shade of a cliff, the chances of a rock falling on them will rise by 100%.
The ‘Cliffs are not Option!’ campaign will be promoted along the municipality’s beaches until the end of August, advising people that the cliffs are inherently dangerous and should be avoided.
A report from Transparency International highlights the additional income MEPs have been earning outside their role as State representatives.
Portuguese MEP, Paulo Rangel, has helped push Portugal in the first half of the outside earnings table, just above Spain and Greece.
The largest group of dolphins ever seen by the Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute crossed the Rias Baixas, near Vigo, Galicia, on July 5th.
The pod of over three thousand dolphins were sighted about 40 kilometres from Portuguese territory.
The richest people in Portugal are, for the most part, men over 60, according to the list of Forbes Portugal.
But in the new ranking there are two ‘unicorns’ and five women - including the head of the richest family in the country- that of Maria Fernanda Amorim whose wealth weighs in at €5.45 billion held as shares in Galp Energia and the original cork business, Corticeira Amorim.
